Peter Thiel
b. 1967
The surveillance-state financier bankrolling the tech right.
Peter Thiel is the money and the ideology behind the tech right: co-founder of the data-mining contractor Palantir, patron of a political network reaching into the vice presidency, and a financier whose moves can move markets. He sits at the junction of surveillance, private power, and a frankly anti-democratic politics this site documents across several files.
What the record shows
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He built a foreign-policy and political influence network from private surveillance power.
FACTThiel's Palantir and his political spending put him — and his protégés — at the center of how the U.S. government sees, sorts, and acts on data.
He helped trigger the run that collapsed Silicon Valley Bank.
FACTHis fund's move to pull deposits — and the signal it sent — accelerated the 2023 SVB collapse, a demonstration of concentrated private power over a public system.
His network published its governing plan in the open.
FACTThe tech-right program — from data governance to its posture toward democracy itself — is not hidden; it is on the record.
Every investigation that touches Peter
Resolved live from the investigations index — this list grows as new coverage lands.
- Thiel's Foreign PolicyThe Tech RightFACT
- Who Lit the Match on SVB?Self-Dealing & Crony CapitalismFACT
- They Published the PlanThe Corporate StateFACT
- The Eugenicist in the RoomThe Corporate StateFACT
- Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineageSelf-Dealing & Crony CapitalismPROBABLY TRUE
- The Convergence DoctrineWho Controls What You Get to KnowPROBABLY TRUE
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